Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery

1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery
1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery
Signed	7 September 1956
Location	Geneva, Switzerland
Effective	30 April 1957
Condition	Fulfilled
Signatories	35
Parties	124 (as at March 2018)(Convention and subsequent Protocol)

The Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the full title of which is the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, is a 1956 United Nations treaty which builds upon the 1926 Slavery Convention, which is still operative and which proposed to secure the abolition of slavery and of the slave trade, and the Forced Labour Convention of 1930, which banned forced or compulsory labour, by banning debt bondage, serfdom, child marriage, servile marriage, and child servitude.

Background[edit]

The Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery was preceeded by the 1926 Slavery Convention. In 1932 the Committe of Experts on Slavery was established to investigate the effeciency of the 1926 Slavery Convention,^[2] which in turn resulted in the establishment of the permanent Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery (ACE).^[3] The global investigation of the occurrence of slavery and slave trade performed by the ACE between 1934 and 1939 was interupted by the outbreak of the World War II, but it was the foundation for the work against slavery performed by the UN after the war.^[4]

When the League of Nations was succeeded by the United Nations (UN) after the end of the World War II, Greenidge of the Anti-Slavery International worked for the UN to continue the investigation of global slavery conducted by the ACE of the League, and in February 1950 the Ad hoc Committee on Slavery of the United Nations was inaugurated.^[5] By the 1950s, legal chattel slavery and slave trade was formally abolished by law in almost the entire world, with the exception of the Arabian Peninsula. Chattel slavery was still legal in Saudi Arabia, in Yemen, in the Trucial States and in Oman, while slavery in Qatar was abolished in 1952, and slaves were supplied for the Arabian Peninsula by the Red Sea slave trade.

The UN Committee on Slavery presented its raport of global slavery to the United Nations Economic and Social Council in 1951; it was published in 1953, and a Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery was written in 1954, and introduced in 1956.^[6]

Summary of key articles[edit]

Article 1: The parties commit to abolish and abandon debt bondage, serfdom, servile marriage and child servitude.

Article 2: The parties commit to enacting minimum ages of marriage, encouraging registration of marriages, and encouraging the public declaration of consent to marriage.

Article 3: Criminalisation of slave trafficking.

Article 4: Runaway slaves who take refuge on flag vessels of parties shall thereby ipso facto attain their freedom.

Article 5: Criminalisation of the marking (including mutilation and branding) of slaves and servile persons.

Article 6: Criminalisation of enslavement and giving others into slavery.

Article 7: Definitions of "slave", "a person of servile status" and "slave trade"

Article 9: No reservations may be made to this Convention.

Article 12: This Convention shall apply to all non-self-governing-trust, colonial and other non-metropolitan territories to the international relations of which any State Party is responsible.

References[edit]

^ "United Nations Treaty Collection". United Nations. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
^ Miers, S. (2003). Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. USA: AltaMira Press. 197-215
^ Miers, S. (2003). Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. Storbritannien: AltaMira Press. p. 216
^ Miers, S. (2003). Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. Storbritannien: AltaMira Press. p. 294
^ Miers, S. (2003). Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. Storbritannien: AltaMira Press. p. 323-324
^ Miers, S. (2003). Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. Storbritannien: AltaMira Press. p, 326

External links[edit]

Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, 226 U.N.T.S. 3, entered into force 30 April 1957. Text of the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery

[1] "United Nations Treaty Collection". United Nations. Retrieved 28 December 2017.

[2] Miers, S. (2003). Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. USA: AltaMira Press. 197-215

[3] Miers, S. (2003). Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. Storbritannien: AltaMira Press. p. 216

[4] Miers, S. (2003). Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. Storbritannien: AltaMira Press. p. 294

[5] Miers, S. (2003). Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. Storbritannien: AltaMira Press. p. 323-324

[6] Miers, S. (2003). Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. Storbritannien: AltaMira Press. p, 326

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v t e Anti-slavery treaties
19th century	Moresby Treaty British-Brazilian Treaty of 1826 Treaty for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade Treaty Between Great Britain and Lagos Treaty of Epe Lyons–Seward Treaty of 1862 Anglo-Egyptian Slave Trade Convention Brussels Conference Act of 1890
20th century	White Slave convention Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery
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